{"id":39590,"date":"2025-12-12T16:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=39590"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:13:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:13:44","slug":"news-chiefs-playoff-elimination-scenario-already-in-play-for-week-15-vs-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=39590","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Chiefs&#8217; playoff elimination scenario already in play for Week 15 vs. Chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"article-body\">Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/.5iZ2PZevGK43hekJ0HOxA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTQyMTtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/touchdown_wire_usa_today_sports_articles_829\/a91ad23bef61e51ba587ebb178b7d8c8\" alt=\"Kansas City Chiefs Could Be Eliminated From NFL Playoffs in Week 15 - Yahoo Sports\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the Kansas City Chiefs, their possibility of being entirely eliminated from the NFL playoffs is closer than it may have appeared, too. It&#8217;s Week 15, they&#8217;re hosting the Los Angeles Chargers, and their season can all end on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>How?<\/p>\n<p>If the Chiefs lose, they are officially eliminated from the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN shared that factoid in its preview of the game on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Mahomes has never missed the playoffs in his career. But the Chiefs, already 6-7, are on the brink.<\/p>\n<p>The Chargers are in better position, so they&#8217;ll be playing hard to try to ensure their best chance of getting into the postseason.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/_.YFFwcmNdKLBWo7yQHFpw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTUwNTtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kansas_city_chiefs_wire_usa_today_sports_articles_178\/1ea54b482c1eecf96d473260522253c3\" alt=\"Chiefs seek to even the season series in Week 15 matchup vs. Chargers - Yahoo Sports\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It has a chance to be a phenomenal football game, but the Chiefs will need to really play their best to have any chance of keeping this season alive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re in unprecedented territory,&#8221; Mahomes told reporters this week. &#8220;I think you lean on the guys that have battled through adversity and came out better on the other side. That&#8217;s Chris [Jones], Travis [Kelce], all of these guys that have won championships. It hasn&#8217;t always been pretty, but it&#8217;ll really test us to see what type of character we have. I think we got the guys in the room to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the other side, Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh summed it up by saying that these are two teams &#8220;fighting for their football lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the Chiefs are just trying to keep their pulse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City has a lot of work to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kansas-city-chiefs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NEWS: Chiefs&#039; playoff elimination scenario already in play for Week 15 vs. Chargers - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=39590\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NEWS: Chiefs&#039; 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